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    I tried to do something like that in my New York challenge map, if you want to take a look.

    The ideas I came up with to make things look like digital readouts were
    --to overlay a square grid shrunk down reeeeeally small in order to give the impression of pixels wherever there were fields of color
    --apply a soft 'outer glow' effect to just about everything on the 'screen'
    --Wireframes (with variable width to imply depth) with an 'outer glow.' I would probably do something similar with the environment's contour lines--easy to do since those look like real-world maps, so getting contour line maps would probably be a piece of cake.
    --emulate the UIs that we might have seen in super cheesy, late eighties to mid-nineties sci-fi/hacker films (anything from Tron to Johnny Mnemonic.)

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    I already have them as outlines. It's just getting the look right... I will also need to colour it... so I'm guessing we should be going for C64 Double-Dragon Colouring?
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